haul, this could get worse before it gets better. because, as we have seen in russian efforts in apep low and grozny, the normal russian dock strin to bomb the heck out of people if their military on the ground strategically is not effective. bret: we are hearing that the iran nuclear deal is on the verge of being signed. do you know that that s the case? number one, do you know what s in it? because we don t. and are you encouraged or discouraged by that process? well, bret, i don t know. i have not even within our threats here, we touched on ukraine, i m sorry, iran, it is a long-term threat. we need to prevent them having a nuclear weapon. but i have not heard with any level of specificity that it is close to be signed. i hear that in kind of the open press. you know, if we can put off iran from developing a nuclear weapon for another 15 to 20 years,
so, i totally dismiss it. it was a big mistake for jen to use that same word transitory as you picked up. and one legislative from the podium if you said something once that was a special word and had impact like transitory and it flopped. it failed, don t repeat it. bret: yeah. speaking of the truth. we are trying to get to the truth of what is happening on the ground in ukraine. you heard from senator warner from senate intel that he believes russia is losing. the director of national intelligence today in a hearing said this about the russian troops. we assess moscow under estimated the strength of ukraine s resistance and the degree of internal military challenges we are observe notice russian military which include ill constructed plan, morale issues and considerable logistical challenges. bret: the challenge now, kimberly is to get putin to an off ramp. how does this stop without increasing what we have to put in to ukraine? yeah, that s what these
been effective against these russia tank columns. the ukrainian armed forces have organized themselves with anti-tank javelins and kept their air defense intact frustrating the russian air force. we destroyed the head of the column. our information is the heading column there the commander of the religion meant destroyed. the soldiers were established just perfectly. the migs, i m told have not necessarily been maintained and would require some work. ukraine still has most of its warplanes intact, several squadrons, the uss poland can provide the migs if it wants. a senior u.s. defense official said nato will provide more sophisticated air defense systems to ukraine soon. bret? bret: senator warner, thank you. learning more information growing cyber threat attacks from u.s. against the u.s. gillian turner tells us from the state department there are already dozens of ransomware assaults in critical
and seize the assets of sanctioned russian oligarch and russian entities that are facilitating this unjust war. garland says he will be briefed on the task force progress soon until doj officials may soon be more action on russian oligarchs. bret? bret: david, thank you. let s bring in the chairman of the senate intelligence committee virginia democrat senator mark warmer. senator, thanks for being here. thank you, bret. bret: had a big hearing today. what did you take from it? i took from it that we are all extraordinarily proud of how the ukrainians are doing. zelenskyy has become literally a world figure and what is clear is the ukrainians are not just fighting for ukraine but they are fighting for the whole notion of democracy and we all need to stand behind him and we can not allow putin to win under any circumstance. we can got to get them more assistance and whether that comes in the form of the 17,000 additional anti-tank projectiles
from poland and what the administration is trying to do with the nuances there? well, i think there is two things, bret. one is there is laid out in public hearing escalation ladder. where you want to give the ukrainians all the forces they can to hold off the russians and frankly the anti-tank weapons, the stingers, the drones, have been extraordinarily effective. one of the things that s not often reported is ukraine actually has quite a number of airplanes left in their enforce. they have not flown them that much. they re only flying a few sorties because russians control most of the airspace. so we want to get them what they need as quickly as possible. we have to couple that candidly with the whole notion of how do you keep nato united and the question i can t answer for you right now but i owe you and your viewers an answer and i need to get this from the administration and frankly from our partners i